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A defence of the Apology of the Church of England containing an answer to…A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to…
A defence of the Apology of the Church of England containing an answer to a certain book lately set forth by M. Harding, and entitled, A confutation of &c. By John Jewel Bishop of Salisbury.A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to a certaine booke lately set foorthe by M. Hardinge, and entituled, A confutation of &c. By Iohn Iewel Bishop of Sarisburie.
Imprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the sign of the Elephant, by Henry Wykes, Anno 1567. 27. OctobrisImprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the signe of the Elephante, by Henry VVykes, Anno 1567. 27. Octobris
Part 4 › The Apology, Cap. 2. Division. 1.Part 4 › The Apologie, Cap. 2. Diuision. 1.
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The Apology, Cap. 2. Division. 1.
The Apologie, Cap. 2. Diuision. 1.
But what need we rehearse Concubines, and Bawds? For that is now an ordinary, and a gainful sin in Rome. For Harlots sit there now a days,1 not as they did in times paste, without the City walls, and with their faces hid and covered: but they dwell in Palaces & Fair Houses: they stray about in Court, and market, & that with bare and open face: as who would say, they may not only lawfully do it, but ought also to be praised for so doing. What should we say any more of this? Their vicious & abominable life is now thoroughly known to the whole world. Bernard writeth roundly & truly of the Bishop of Romes house, yea & of the Bishop of Rome him self. Thy Palace, saith he, taketh in good men, but it maketh none: naughty persons thrive there, and the good decay. And, who so ever he were, which wrote the Tripartite work, annexed to the Council of Lateran, he saith thus, So excessive at this day is the riot, aswell in the Prelates and Bishops, as also in the Clerks and Priests, that it is horrible to be told. But these things be not only grown in ure, and so by custom & continuance of time well allowed, as all the rest of their doings in manner be, but they are now waxen old, and rotten ripe. For who hath not heard, what a heinous act Peter Aloisius, Pope Paul the thirds Son committed against Cosmus Cherius the Bishop of Fanum: what John Casa, Archbishop of Beneventum, the Popes Legate at Venice, wrote in the commendation of a most abominable filthiness: & how he set forth with most loathsome words, and wicked eloquence, the matter, which ought not once to proceed out of any bodies mouth? To whose ears hath it not come, that Alphonsus Diazius a Spaniard, being purposely sent from Rome into Germany, so shamefully and Devilishly murdered his own Brother John Diazius, a most Innocent, and a most Godly man, only because he had embraced the Eospel of Jesus Christ, and would not return again to Rome?